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Re:A vi-centric family tree of editors (2000) by codezero on Sunday November 27, 2016 @09:48PM (#13053061)
This is how I learned vi. I was a pico (now called nano) user but needed to edit the hosts file when Solaris was released for x86.
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Re:A vi-centric family tree of editors (2000) by digi_owl on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @10:45AM (#13071614)
More correctly nano is a reimplementation of pico.

This, iirc, done because pico was part of the pine email client. And pine was covered by a iffy license.

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Re:A vi-centric family tree of editors (2000) by codezero on Sunday December 04, 2016 @02:51PM (#13101451)
Ah, neat, I didn't realize it wasn't just renamed :)
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